The final question

Well it’s obvious that Vitoria came to think of that there is no-one that would be able to cut her hair and therefore her head would be cut of instead. Vitoria rather live poor then die rich. Maybe they wouldn’t even give her the money before they would kill her, I wouldn’t. So what would be the point of staying? Our brain is “programmed” to fight for survival and that’s what Vitoria did by running of to London and hide.

The German Pastor

No, Nico is not guilty of murder or spreading a disease. He only gave tomato juice and that doesn’t make any harm to a human body (unless you’re allergic). On the other hand he is guilty of mislead people and scare them. I think that it would be fair if he would be punished, but not by hanging. But it would be difficult to punish him, unless Gordon Brow makes it illegal to lie and then put him to prison or let him hang.

The Student Dinner

Student "dinner" with Chris

- Whoah! A dance show! Wait a minute, it's only old people "dancing".

- Please, save us from this sight!

Evi: - I know her!

Ilana: - I'm to short to see and it's cold!

- Let's go back to the pub!

Nikita's Problem

I’m wondering about how Lau can be certain that if he wins then Nikita will lose the right to enforce the contract. Since it’s not mention in the text I’m not sure about it. However I think that Nikita made the mistake.

The mistake that I found in this complex situation is that if Nikita sues Lau, then Lau doesn’t have to defend himself. So if Nikita lose then he doesn’t get any money because Lau didn’t win his first court. Lau’s lawyer won the case, not Lau.

If Nikita would win then you maybe think that he should get his money from Lau. The original agreement says that he only have to pay until and unless he wins his first court. Then he doesn’t have to pay because he lost the case. So as long as Lau doesn't win any court himself, he doesn't have to pay acording to the agreement.

Nikita took a risk when he gave a offer like that and now he doesn’t get paid.

An Unexpected Exam

Is it possible to have an unexpected exam? (related to the text that Chris gave us 24.11.09)


Of course it’s possible to have an unexpected exam. You just have to keep quiet and make sure that no-one knows it. Don’t mention to the student’s that they will have an unexpected exam because then it’s expected. But if you mention it anyway, then you still can give the exam but it will not be a surprise anymore, because a surprise is something that you can’t se coming. If the students will complain that it’s not a surprise and therefore you cannot give them the test, then they’re right. It’s not a surprise anymore, but as a teacher you shouldn’t care about that and give them the exam anyway and explain that they should be glad that they were warned so they could at least prepare.

Escaping the death and judge Stella

Escaping Death

Now Judge Stella had been doing the job for 20 years. In that time she had had many disagreeable, violent people in front of her. However Stella was made of stern stuff. She had never hesitated in sending people to the gallows. “Der Teufel steckt im Detail. “ she used to say – as she sent a prisoner to his death…


The prisoner she saw today was the worst, though. This prisoner was called ‘Rob-the-Philosopher’.
Stella didn’t know much about philosophy – and the title of this prisoner annoyed her.
Stella said: 'I intend to teach you the value of honesty, prisoner. You have been found guilty of being a crook and a swindler and of repeatedly and systematically lying to the court to try to save your wretched skin. Well, justice has caught up with you now, my friend. The sentence of this court is . . .' (here Stella pauses for effect and dons a pair of black gloves and a little black hat) ' . . that you be taken from here to a place of execution and hanged by the neck until you are dead.

. . . BUT, as I am a magnanimous Judge, I shall give you one more opportunity to learn the value of truth. If, on the day of your execution, you sign a statement making one true declaration, the sentence will be commuted to ten years imprisonment. If, on the other hand, your statement is, in the view of the Chief Executioner, false, the sentence will be carried out immediately. And I warn you,' Stella adds, seeing his words having no effect on the crook, 'the Chief is a member of the Logical Positivist Executioners' Club and will dismiss any metaphysical nonsense as false, so don't try any of your tricks on her! There, now you have one day in which to make your choice!'

At this the jury of Eric and Richard, Veronika, Nico, Abraham, Karla, Lau, Celina (now recovered), Vitoria, Andres, Ignacia, and Lau applauded at the severity of the sentence and everyone in the courtroom looks at the defendant, pleased to see such a villain get a heavy sentence, coupled with the humiliating public true declaration. But, strangely, the Philosopher just smirks back as he is led away to Death Row.
The day of the execution arrives and the crook, beaming, signs a declaration which is handed to the Chief Executioner who reads it with growing bewilderment. Then, snarling, she crumples it up and orders the Philosopher be released, with no penalty whatsoever to be ~imposed.

What could the prisoner have said in the statement to have saved himself?
(Copywrite Chris)



Something that ”Rob-the-Philosopher” knew for certain was that he was trying to think of something that’s true. It’s a little bit like “I’m thinking, therefore I know that I exist”

Also you know things that you have experienced or seen with your own eyes. You can’t doubt everything; you have to trust yourself and what you see. The apple will fall down to the ground, and that’s true.

If you’re standing on the earth and you drop an apple, you know it’s going to fall down because you’ve seen it and you’ve been thought so in school. What we learn in school is a different kind of knowledge because the things that we learn have been changed over the time when we get new evidence and proof that we decide we believe more in.

What I think that the prisoner wrote something like “It’s true that I’m trying to think of something that’s true”.

Theory Of Knowledge

This is a post for Theory Of Knowledge (TOK). I have to rearange my blog so i don't have to make a new one for every subject that i will have with Chris.

Well I’m just going to write my answers to the questions without writing any introduction or the question it self.

My answer for question number one is that we have to believe what we see and experience clearly with our own eyes and mind. We can’t doubt everything; it would make us go crazy. I understand it from the text that he doesn’t see the cow very clearly, it says that he only recognised her from the distance. I would say that that he doesn’t really know, because it could be a case of mixed identity

But was he right to way that he knew she was?
No because he fought someone/something else was his cow. How knew that the subject that he fought was his cow was in the field, but he didn’t knew if it is his dear cow Doris or not.

Break even analysis

http://efbusinesseconomics.blogspot.com/search/label/Break-even

Total revenue







Total revenue is the when you multiply the output with the selling price. It tells you how much money you will get in.


Unit contribution







It’s the profit you make for each unit that you sell (before subtracting the fixed cost). To count this out you have to take the selling price and subtract it with the variable cost.

Total contribution








This is the profit you make for selling all of your units before you subtract the fixed cost. To count out the total contribution you have to take the variable cost and multiply it with the output.


Break-even
















The break even point is when something starts to be profitable. It’s when you got all your money back that you invested. You can count out when the break even by taking the fixed cost and divide it by the unit contribution (see in the beginning of this post).

Profit












The profit is what you earn, the money you get extra from your business. The opposite of “profit” is “loss”.
There are two ways of counting out the profit. The first one is total contribution (variable cost x output) – fixed cost. The other one is total revenue (output x selling price) – total cost (variable cost x output + fixed cost). I prefer the first one because for me it’s easier.

The Swine Flu

While the British government doesn’t seem at all interested in giving vaccine to the population, the Swedish government counted out that it’s cheaper to give the whole population vaccine. Why is it cheaper? Because when the pandemic will break out, then people won’t be able to go to work. Having the whole population sick for one day would cost much more then the 1.3 milliard (US billion) Swedish krouns that they will pay for the vaccine.

Not to mention that it makes the population more satisfied and secure.

Advertising

After WH Smith’s successfully rolled out a chain of about 80 hospital shops, the company is now planning on open stores in office blocks across Britain. The new stores will carry 2,500 lines and be bout 1,000 sq. They will mostly sell confectionery, stationery and magazines.

One store in an office block with 2,500 people employed in Liverpool is already opened and according to the chief executive, Kate Swann, another 8-10 stores would be opened in the coming year.

Open a stationery shop in an office block sound like I great idea ad you wonder why nobody have already done that. But when you think about it a little bit more then you realize that most offices have their stationery suppliers. But WH Smith is not only a stationery shop and if somebody at the office needs to get something quickly then they don’t have to wait until the supplier shows up.

Also it is a smaller competition and therefore you can be more sure that people from the office block will go to your store and buy.

NLP and etc.

Today Lau and Ignasia had a very impressive presentation about NLP. They only had one day to prepare and they did great. I especially enjoyed Lau’s talk about getting women. I think that he could run a business and teach others how to do it and earn a lot of money.

Today I decided that I want to talk about advertising in my presentation. Most people find commercials annoying. Not me, I often think about the work that’s behind a commercial. Of course I think that some adverts are really ridicules, but otherwise it’s interesting.

I took this picture below in Hamburg last Christmas. It shows that I simply idea can stand out and get a lot of attention. (It's an advertise for hous isolation)

A Good Commercial

Good commercial is good marketing, here is proof.

Suicide?

This is just crazy.

The Lapdesk

I’m gong to write a business plan for the revolutionary invention “The Lapdesk”.

The idea with the Lapdesk is that people can work comfortable everywhere. You save space because instead of tables you only need the Lapdesk. If you need to take notes and you don’t have a table available, then it’s much better for you to use the Lapdesk and write on it instead of crossing your legs and breaking you back.

You can use the Lapdesk everywhere; on the bus, train, airport, at home and even in school! If a school have small classrooms and to many students, then it’s much better to use the Lapdesk in class instead of tables who takes to much space.

The globalisation makes people travel a lot, especially business people. Travelling takes time, so why not spend it well and get some work done so you can spend more time with your family or friends? With the Lapdesk you can feel like in a comfortable office where ever you are.

Improvements that I would do before expanding this business:
- First of all I would change the martial to leather. No business man in the world would walk around with a plastic bag.
- “Less is more”, but this is just “nothing is nothing”. Small details on the desk and make the Lapdesk in different colours.
- Remake the website.
- Change the silly slogans.
- Make new higher quality photos with better, better looking models.


Marketing the Lapdesk
- Send “the Lapdesk” to some famous bloggers. For example; I would sent the Lapdesk to the Swedish blogger “Blondinbella”. Personally I don’t like her, but she has 300.000 readers each week and she calls her self a “businesswoman”.
- Affiliate marketing.
- Give brochures at big conference meetings.

I would sell the Lapdesk mostly in stationery shops like Ryman, Webb shops and I would have salesmen (women as well, of course) in big business cities like NY and Hong Kong.

Right now I'm uppdating my 25 points and doing my business plan. We'll se which one of them will be finnished first.

Examen the impact on a business of trade union power

Trade union is the employee’s organisation. Their purpose is usually to make it more comfortable at work and more democratic.
The employees should be more satisfied and should have better results. But there is a problem: when they have a fulltime contract which says that they can not be fired from their place then they don’t have such a motivation to improve their skills.

A product made with trade union is more expensive then without trade union. This can lead to changing of customers preferences. Products without trade union are selling better and that can cause worsening work environment.
Companies without trade union will thrive.
More employees will have a work in bad environment.
In a way it’s a support of “dictatorship”, because trade unions are more democratic.
Companies without trade unions make more profit; so they could give their employees higher salaries.
Trade unions are a part of a social cycle; the workers are more satisfied if they are in a trade union.

If you have a short time contract and you are not in the trade union, then you can get sacked at anytime. It’s harder to start a family and keep you job.

Considering the population in the west Europe is getting older, so it’s important to make it easier for people to start a family and get the population younger.

Klick here to find my (my group's) marketing plan. Have a little problem with my blog, will try to fix it later.

Homework

Right now I'm doing the marketing plan with Karla and Theodor, just so you know!

Pre IB

Hi there!